1986 Songs: Your Wildest Dreams

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Wow, two top ten hits in the same day? Can you stand it!! The bigger question is, can you remember it? This was, after all, 40 years ago now. And it’s by a band that could have been on the 1976 and 1966 lists (if they’d released albums that year ) as well! Longevity! Here’s today’s song. Your Wildest Dreams - Moody Blues You know what I say every time the Moody Blues come up in conversation: my brother’s favorite band!!! I have to commend my brother for his outstanding taste. The godfathers of prog rock! (And I much prefer what they had as prog rock over what it became later, as so well spoofed in National Lampoon’s “Art Rock Suite” on Goodbye Pop.) Their lyrics were more poetry or novels than songs (see: “Question” or “Nights in White Satin”), which was common then (see: “A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procol Harum) but somehow fell by the wayside in the following decades (see: JudyEv’s comments about the lacking of lyrical depth for a lot of the songs used ). Believe it or not, this was their second-biggest hit in the US (behind “Nights in White Satin,” which made it to #2 on the Billboard chart). Sadly, there’s only one Moody left standing: songwriter Justin Hayward. But oh, what a long legacy of great music they gave us. And the fact that it took them as long as it did to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is the black eye that institution has to carry forever. Your Wildest Dreams Written by Justin Hayward Recorded by Moody Blues From The Other Side of Life, 1986 I wonder if you think of me: